"Get Busy" paragraph response... Place it here!

Please place your "get busy living or get busy dying "essay" in this comment box please. Remember to insert your name!

Shawshank Conclusion

Download the reading titled "shawshank conclusion", and listen to the final seven pages of the novel as you read the book. Once you have finished, complete the following tasks:

1. Explain how Red's search through hayfields is similar to Andy's hobbies in Shawshank.

2. Why would Red find his new life in the "real world" so terrifying?

3. Compose three paragraphs that explain the significance of the following line:

"Get busy living, or get busy dying" (106)

• First, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line is significant to the book itself. Be sure to use specific reference to the novel.
• Second, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line is significant in another book, film or poem.
• Third, compose a SEE paragraph that explains how this line could be significant to you in your own life.

Be sure to use quotes when possible, and to compose paragraphs that would be suitable for an exam situation.

Good Luck!

Poetry Theme: to you who would wage war...

to you who would wage war against me

I
there are many lines
you have not traced on my palms
still
you think you know me

when i speak
you nod knowingly
as if
you’ve already read my mind
and are only politely acknowledging
the confirmation of my spoken words

II
but you cannot possibly know
what i’ve been contemplating
these days

my head is full of blood
but you show no fear
and i do not trust my hands
they look to me like stones

you do not cower when i approach
though i feel like a runaway train
and i can hear your voice cool and steady
while my brain screams profanities
into the air around your ears

our past has given you no reason
to be afraid
but still i am surprised you cannot see
the danger burning brightly in my eyes
the fire i am struggling to control

III
as i sit stewing in the kitchen’s false light
with tears my daughter
comes to me
frightened by what she cannot see
afraid tonight to sleep
i hold her in my arms
singing soft words of comfort
feeling her heart quickly
beating against my chest
knowing before i can think that
i have forgiven us
for our stupid little wars

knowing in that incandescent light
that anger will never move me
as delicately as she has moved me
this night
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm


Activities


EAT the poem

1. The title of the poem refers to a nameless “you” and “me”. Look closely at the poem or clues about the personalities of the two people referred to by these pronouns. What can you conclude about the personalities of these individuals (support your claims with evidence)


2. The poem deals with two powerful contrasting emotions, anger and love. What words and images does the writer use to convey the intensity of these emotions?


3. What is the significance of the narrator’s observation that “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me”? Why does the narrator’s concern and love or her daughter move her more than anger?


4. Examine the poem “the laughing heart” and compare it to this poem. Which line from Bukowski’s poem relates the closest to “anger will never move me as delicately as she has moved me. Explain your response.


5. What ideas does the poem develop regarding perspective? How can this be related to Shawshank?

Visual Response

Using the picture above, construct a Visual Response essay. Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion, and three body paragraphs. Successful papers will include critical analysis of the photograph, and personal insight into the themes demonstrated by the image itself. Final papers must be posted in the comment box by Monday!

84-89

The Class...

You should have posted your paragraph on the poem by now... next, download the powerpoint (shawshank feb 27) from the server. Also, acquire a copy of the audio file titled 84-89. With your partner, complete the slides in the powerpoint. Try to follow the timelines as closely as possible.

Tasks to Post...
The title focuses on the word redemption, and on a “pin up” girl named Rita Hayworth. How are these significant… to answer this question,

1.Find pictures of the women Andy hung on the wall of his cell.
2.Explain how these posters are symbols
3.The poem “the laughing heart” tells us to “be on the watch/ there are ways out./there is light somewhere / that it may not be much light but/it beats thedarkness. How did these posters help Andy “beat the darkness”
4.How did Andy find redemption?

Post Your "Laughing Heart" Here!

Please post your paragraph responses to the poem "The Laughing Heart" in this section. Be sure to make your statement specific, to utilize a direct quotation, and to explain the quotation effectively. Each paragraph will be marked out of 5. (think about the vocab).

Oz out!

Page 71-85

1. During this section of the novel, Andy reveals his master plan to Red. This plan includes Zihuatanejo, Peter Stevens, and a key in a farmer's field. Explain how each of these items is significant to Andy's future plans.

2. After hearing about Andy's wealth, Red says "you could have hired Clarence Darrow" (76)for that kind of money. Do some research... find out who Clarence Darrow was, what was he most famous for, and why would Red make this statement at this point?

3. Escaping from Shawshank seems to be an irregular occurrence. Red tells us that since 1938, only ten prisoners "got away clean" (82). However, Red states that "half of those ten are doing time in other institutions of lower learning like The Shank" (82). Explain why Red feels these escapees would eventually find their way into different prisons

4. What significant event does Red say occurred in 1975 (83)

Source Analysis. Read the poem below:

the laughing heart

by: Charles Bukowski

your life is your life.
don’t let it be clubbed into dank
submission.
be on the watch
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the
darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them, take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death
in life,
sometimes
and the more often you
learn to do it,
the more light there will
be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have
it. You are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in
you.

What does the poem suggest to you about dealing with difficult circumstances? compose a paragraph response based on the poem.